Project Manager, Digital Archiving & Content Lifecycle Manager

Context & mission

Médecins Sans Frontières is an independent, international medical and humanitarian organization that provides care to people in need, people affected by natural or man-made disasters, and victims of armed conflict, without discrimination and without regard to race, religion, creed or political affiliation (MSF Charter).

The Project Manager is responsible for leading and delivering a large-scale, TIC-funded, intersectional project to design a shared Information Governance blueprint and develop and test a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for digital content lifecycle management, archiving, and preservation solution across participating MSF entities.

The role ensures effective coordination between multiple Operational Directorates (OD Geneva, OD Amsterdam, OD Paris and others), IT stakeholders, Information & Knowledge Management (IKM) teams, end users from operational departments and external vendors. The Project Manager balances technical feasibility, operational realities, and governance requirements, while building consensus across diverse stakeholders and ensuring that project scope, priorities, and deliverables remain clear, realistic, and aligned. The project manager ensures that these existing efforts are taken into consideration in the new project, avoiding duplication and maximizing coherence and impact.

This position plays a critical role in enabling MSF to safeguard its institutional memory, improve operational efficiency, strengthen security and compliance, and prepare scalable digital solutions adaptable across the movement.

Tasks & Responsibilities

Project Leadership and Delivery

• Lead the project end-to-end, from initiation through delivery, testing, and handover, in line with TIC requirements, information management needs in the field and HQ offices and MSF project management standards.
• Develop and maintain a detailed project plan, including scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, decision gates, and resource allocation.
• Ensure delivery of the two core project outcomes:
  • An adaptable Information Governance blueprint.
  • A tested MVP for automated digital content lifecycle management, archiving, and preservation.
• Manage the project budget, timelines, reporting, and formal TIC governance processes.
• Prepare progress updates, steering committee materials, and final project reports.

Intersectional Coordination and Stakeholder Alignment

• Act as the central coordination point across participating Operational Directorates, IO functions, IKM working groups and other stakeholders, IT teams, regional IT support service (SITS) and external partners, ensuring clear communication and shared understanding.
• Facilitate structured, inclusive dialogue to surface operational needs, align expectations, priorities, and constraints, and bridge different operational realities across sections.
• Proactively identify divergences in needs, maturity, or constraints between ODs and support the identification of workable compromises. Ensure alignment in terms or resources and availability.
• Ensure that existing information management initiatives and systems are clearl